“I’m not a celebrity but I do get a taste of what they have to go through – I have strangers calling me a whore, people calling me fat, people calling me ugly, people saying just about any mean thing you could say.

“People like to define you as a whore for twerking but it’s just a type of dance, that’s it, if people were open-minded they would understand that."

But the starlet has found strength from the support of her family who have overcome their own prejudices about twerking.

Jessica added: “They’re very open minded people - they don’t look at it in any type of sexual way, they don’t look at it as degrading, they’re very supporting.